U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton kicks off an Asian tour aimed at promoting democracy in Mongolia, a microbubble underwater treadmill for pets priced at $19,994 debuts at the Taipei Pet Show and more in today’s daily brief.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia at the president’s ger in Ulan Bator on July 9, 2012. Clinton arrived in Mongolia on July 9 as part of an Asian tour aimed at promoting democracy, as local politicians were locked in dispute over recent elections. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

A dog attempts to walk inside a microbubble underwater treadmill for pets, which is priced at $19,994, during a media preview for the 2012 Taipei Pet Show at Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei, July 9, 2012. (Yi-ting Chung/Reuters)

Relatives of one of the victims of the flood mourn during the funerals at a cemetery of the town of Krymsk in the southern Russian Krasnodar region, on July 9, 2012. Russia held a day of mourning for at least 171 people who died in its worst flooding disaster as questions mounted over whether officials did enough to warn of the impending calamity. (Mikhail Mordasov/AFP/Getty Images)

Traditional dancers perform during celebrations to mark the first anniversary of the Republic of South Sudan’s independence in the capital Juba, July 9, 2012. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir vowed on Monday to confront the corruption plaguing his country a year after it declared independence. (Adriane Ohanesian/Reuters)

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, presidential candidate for the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), is seen during a news conference in Mexico City July 9, 2012. Obrador said on Monday he does not accept the July 1 election results in which he placed second. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)

A forensic expert of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) works on trying to identify the remains of a victim from the Srebrenica massacre, at the ICMP centre near Tuzla July 9, 2012. Some 520 recently discovered Bosnian Muslim victims’ remains from the massacre will be buried on July 11 at the Memorial center in Potocari. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)

Gamal (L) and Alaa Mubarak, sons of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, sit behind bars during their trial in the police academy in the outskirts of Cairo on July 9, 2012. Alaa and Gamal Mubarak appeared in court to face a new corruption trial, after the two were acquitted in another case. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

British Bradley Wiggins starts competing at the beginning of the 41,5 km individual time-trial and ninth stage of the 2012 Tour de France cycling race starting in Arc-et-Senans and finishing in Besancon on July 9, 2012. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)

A foreign tourist sits next to a large art display of a shark displayed at a shopping mall in Bangkok on July 9, 2012. Thailand is a tourist magnet but its image as the “Land of Smiles” has been tested in recent years by deadly political unrest, devastating floods and more recently a bungled bomb plot involving Iranian suspects. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images)

“Aloitadores” (fighters) struggle with a wild horse during the 400-year-old horse festival called “Rapa das bestas” (Shearing of the Beasts) in Sabucedo on July 9, 2012. (Miguel Rio/AFP/Getty Images)

Children carrying balloons walk past a red tarpaulin on the fourth day of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 9, 2012. (Eloy Alonso/Reuters)

This photo made July 7, 2012 shows Nasirku Rakwa, 20, tending to a herd of goats in the plains surrounding the village of Nkoilale in Narok district in Kenya. Women’s roles in the Masai society are changing in this area on the edge of the Maasai Mara game reserve. (Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images)

A Syrian man lies on a bed as he recovers from wounds in his stomach and leg made by the deflagration of a shell tank in Kfar Sajna in the northwestern province of Idlib on July 8, 2012. International envoy Kofi Annan has arrived in Syria after admitting that his peace plan has so far failed to end nearly 16 months of blood-shed. (Lolo/AFP/Getty Images)

A bee collects nectar from a sunflower on a field near the northern Swiss town Leibstadt July 9, 2012. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)

A vendor holds a chicken foot as she displays it for sale at a market in Huaibei, Anhui province, July 9, 2012. China’s annual consumer inflation cooled to 2.2 percent in June, from May’s 3.0 percent, official data showed on Monday, giving Beijing more scope to ease monetary policy. (Stringer/Reuters)

A participant poses with her body paintings in front of the Woerthersee lake during the 15th World Bodypainting Festival in Poertschach on July 8, 2012. Some 30,000 visitors are expected at the three-day event, with over 200 artists from 44 countries. (Alexander Klein/AFP/Getty Images)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The runner-up in Mexico’s presidential election rejected the final results of the contest on Monday and said he had evidence that about 5 million votes had been bought by opponents.

Sunday’s official tally said leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who led six weeks of protests when he lost the 2006 presidential election, finished second with 31.59 percent of the vote. That left him about 3.3 million votes behind winner Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) with 38.21 percent.

International election observers said the July 1 vote had been clean but prior to polling day Lopez Obrador had accused Pena Nieto and the PRI of vote buying, raising the prospect of a legal dispute over the outcome that could last for weeks.

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